Thanks to my lovely wife, she pointed out that an adjustment may need to be made to my "Working late" Not Dork entry. She pointed out in a very nice way that what I was working on would fall into the Dork category. Until recently my job title had been Associate Systems Analyst. Yes, it is a slightly dorky title. I then got news during the annual review process that I was receiving a promotion. The timing was somewhat odd because I had just asked my supervisor about a different job opportunity. She told me that I would be getting a promotion, but she didn't have the review finished. I had to wait a couple more weeks before it was all official and I received my new job title. Systems Programmer is my job title as of April 3. There is no question about the title, it definitely falls under the dork category. The department I'm part of is in the middle of going through and revamping job titles/responsibilities. So unfortunately I was one of the first to get a new updated title. The job title for Systems Programmer before was Systems Analyst. Systems Analyst doesn't sound as geeky but I guess I can make due with Programmer.
Dork: April 2005 Archives
I've become a fan of RSS feeds lately. I've started using them one I started using Firefox. It has a built in RSS reader so I'm able to keep up on Slashdot, Slickdeals, Techbargains, and some other blogs all with one click.
I noticed that my blogging software automatically created the RSS feed for my Dork or Not Dork? site, but for some reason the On Going Life blog didn't have the option. I figured that the problem was that the On Going blog has be through many upgrades of software but I'm never revisited the blog's layout. I took some time to find out how to get the blog exported and reimported. So I just did a quick export, created a new blog, and import the entries. That solved the problem of the RSS feeds on the On Going portion of the site, or so I thought.
I got an email from my asking if I could fix my RSS feed because it was not up to standard. I was a little confused because I've never had any experience working with RSS feeds. I know that they were XML based and I've done some work with XML but that was dealing with skinning a media player. So I started digging around trying to find out what I needed to update. I found this nice little site Feed Validator where you enter in the feed address and it will tell where a feed is bad. After a little digging I found that the blog software was automatically creating a RDF, 1.0, and 2.0 feeds. I ended up just ditching the RDF and 1.0 feeds that the software created. I thought that would solve the problem, but no. The validator was telling me some gibberish about the dates being out of format. I look through Feed Validator's help and I found exactly what I needed. I told me that MoveableType RSS feed templates do not create 2.0 compliant feeds. The site had a link to the page at MoveableType.org where I could download a new template to make it 2.0 compliant. I took a look at the new template to see where the dates were wrong and it all came down to a colon in the date. I got it changed and it's working
My brother contacted me because he is putting together a website that will grab all the RSS feeds from the Motylinski family blogs. Everyone in my family has a blog except my mom. I think my brother is working on her to get one going but I don't think that it's going to work anytime soon.
